Andre Malraux Quotes

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.